Explore your experiences, relationships,
and feelings through this guided tour of
journal-keeping in
Jewish tradition.
Journaling has been, and remains, an
inherently Jewish activity. From the Kabbalist mystics who
recorded their practices of reaching altered states of
consciousness, to the more recent journals of those who lived
during the Holocaust, to the spiritual precedent for Jewish
journal-keeping at holy times of the year, writing, recording,
and reflecting have long been a part of Jewish custom.
Janet Ruth Falon delves into the practical
aspects of keeping a journal as well as how you can use your
journal to nurture Jewish values and concerns. Using examples
from her own writing, she demonstrates how journaling can
unleash your creativity and reveal aspects of yourself that you
may not have thought about before. She also includes 52
journaling tools that teach specific techniques to help you
create and maintain a vital, living journal, from a Jewish
perspective.
Inspiring and practical, this guided tour
of journaling shows how yours can be used to better understand
yourself and the world.
“Lively and warm, Janet Falon
invokes a noble history of Jewish journal writers and her own
moving experiences as a journal writer and teacher. She makes
the reader want to keep a journal, not only to access our
intimate, spiritual selves but also to get our own words on the
page. Most important, she teaches us how.”
—Lori
Hope Lefkovitz, Kolot Professor of
Gender and Judaism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
“A treasure chest of ideas and
encouragement. Janet Falon’s passion and insights will
inspire writers at every stage of the journaling
journey.”
—Marlene
A. Schiwy, PhD, author of A Voice of Her Own: Women and
the Journal
Writing Journey
“Reading this book is like having a
personal coach in journal writing. Falon is not only inviting
and encouraging, she offers many wonderful tips on how to get
started and how to keep going. One is left with the idea that
there is no wrong way to journal. Just do it!”
—Kay
Lindahl, author of The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections
for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice
Janet Ruth Falon is an award-winning journalist, essayist, poet, and
teacher. She teaches journaling and creative writing at many
venues, including the University of Pennsylvania, and is
available to teach workshops based on the concepts in this
book. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Christian Science
Monitor. Janet Falon
is available to speak on the following topics:
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